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This entire issue of transgender people posing a kind of threat to cisgender women in bathrooms is made up. We are just like everybody else - we go into the bathroom, we keep our heads down, we don't look at anybody. - Nicole Maines
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Separate but equal does not work. - Nicole Maines
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Gender is a spectrum, and that's something that a lot of folks don't understand. - Nicole Maines
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It's OK not to understand the whole trans thing. That's alright. My dad didn't understand it. I still don't know everything. What's important is you sort of educate yourself on your own time, but you have to respect it on everyone else's time. Because no one should have to wait for equality. - Nicole Maines
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Acceptance at home is fundamental, yes, but frankly, it's just not enough. Trans youth, like most young people, spend the majority of their time at school. If you spent Monday to Friday from 8 to 3 being told that you weren't okay, that you were wrong, how are you meant to think otherwise? - Nicole Maines
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I think everything's going to turn out pretty well for me. - Nicole Maines
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Everybody loves superheroes, and so to be associated with a superhero forever is just kind of like, that's where the goalposts are. That's kind of, 'Bam, you're immortalized!' - Nicole Maines
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Historically, we have seen cis men play trans women and vice versa. That casting breaks through the fourth wall, and it gives people the message that trans people are being played by cis men in real life, which is where we get this idea of men in dresses. - Nicole Maines
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The thought of being a boy makes me cringe. I just couldn't do it. - Nicole Maines
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I think kids need to watch 'Supergirl' for Nia, because there are more and more trans people coming out younger and younger. - Nicole Maines
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Because you never know when a transgender person is going to come into your life, you need to be prepared, and you need to be ready to help them. - Nicole Maines
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I am transgender. I knew that I was for as long as I can remember. - Nicole Maines
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Children are a lot smarter than we give them credit for. - Nicole Maines
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I studied digital arts and graphic design, and then, at the same time I was studying, I was still doing auditions. - Nicole Maines
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I had been on puberty suppressants and hormone suppressants, so I did not go through male puberty. - Nicole Maines
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We can be whoever we want. We can do whatever we want. We can be superheroes, because in many ways we are. We've had trans representation in television for a while, but it hasn't been the right representation. - Nicole Maines
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The most inspirational person in my life has been my mother. - Nicole Maines
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It's good to have a free space to laugh and cry and get angry about gender and sexuality. That's one of the things I am the most thankful for from my friends and my family. They've given me the place to freely have gender be a part of our discourse. - Nicole Maines
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